Image credit: Photo by Bob.Fornal on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons If you had asked me, before Austen was born, if nearly every detail of my life was fixed in routine, I would have said no, and I would have thought that was quite true. After all, I had free will and all that. If [...]
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Kids, Don’t Try Alliterative Haiku or Coke for Breakfast
Slowly sipping sweet, cool, caffeinated cola: Bad, blissful breakfast.
Haiku for Janie and a Friend Eating Cake
"What's your favorite part: cake, frosting or strawberries?" "I pick... All of them!"
A Spoon Is Not a Spoon
Image credit: Photo by skinnylaminx on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons As I write this, I have a cup of tea beside me, and I am trying to get myself to drink it. I'm not hesitating because I don't like tea or because I think it will be unpleasant. I'm hesitating because I'm trying to [...]
Different Strokes
Image credit: Photo by Darwin Bell on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My husband Mark, I have to admit it, hates fish. And people fish evangelize him all the time. I used to too, in my pre-vegetarian days, when a trip to the aquarium would make me hungry. The problem, you see, is never that [...]
Just For Today Challenge: November 24, 2009
Image credit: Photo by catdancing on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 2.0 Last week, I asked you all to join the Just for Today Challenge with me, where we would all change one thing about our lives for just one day. I'll share what I did, and if you did something yourself, either share [...]
Haiku for my Favorite Bakery
Red velvet cupcake luxuriates on my tongue like the taste of sin.
Dinner Haiku Silliness
Gas, gas, gas, gas, gas. Beans, beans, beans, too many beans and roasted garlic.
Caring for Myself
Image credit: Photo by hyperbolic pants explosion on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons There's a picture of me somewhere, when my son was a few months old, sitting at the computer and uploading pictures of him to share. I got lots of advice to sleep when the baby slept. I was told by plenty of [...]
If My Son Ruled the World
Image credit: Photo by go to /theworldsaddress/ instead on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I was looking through Austen's school papers this week and found an exercise he had done describing what things would be like if he ruled the world. He had filled in blanks to complete several sentences, one of which read: "If [...]
